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tần tảo

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Vietnamese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “what does each syllable mean here? perhaps it's a semantic shift from etymology 2 below?
or: Sino-Vietnamese word from 頻 (“frequent”) and 早 (“early”)?”

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Adjective

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tần tảo

  1. industrious
  2. (by extension) diligent and parsimonious; economical; thrifty

Etymology 2

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Sino-Vietnamese word from 蘋 and 藻.

Noun

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tần tảo

  1. (rare, literary) a type of algae, often used in antiquity for rituals
  2. (historical) a kind of sacrificial offering
  3. (by extension) women's virtues

Anagrams

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